On-song Draper too good for Fonseca in Indian Wells

Britain’s Jack Draper beat Brazilian wildcard Joao Fonseca 6-4, 6-0 to move into the third round of the Indian Wells Masters at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.

Draper, ranked No 14, will face the winner of the match between American Jenson Brooksby and Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 17 seed, next

“Obviously Joao’s got a lot of eyeballs on him, young player coming through, causing a lot of noise,” Draper said. “I was expecting a really tough match, and it was. The scoreline would suggest potentially otherwise but I felt like the first set we were both playing some really good tennis. He was hitting some really powerful shots.

“It was tough to sort of get a feel of the match, but then I felt like towards the end of the first set my energy picked up. I started to feel like, you know, tactically I was aware of a few more things. I just was able to get on top of him in the second set and run away with it a little bit.

“Just very proud of my performance and happy with the way I dealt with the situation and the occasion, and the crowd and everything.”

Fonseca, ranked No 80, won against Jacob Fearnley (6-2, 1-6, 6-3) in the previous round of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters.

Indian Wells Masters 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 13.042.410, most recent results first):

• Gael Monfils vs. Sebastian Korda
• Mariano Navone vs. Ben Shelton
• David Goffin vs. Alex De Minaur
• Karen Khachanov vs. Jakub Mensik
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Nuno Borges
• Novak Djokovic vs. Botic van de Zandschulp
• Hubert Hurkacz vs. Hugo Gaston
• Rinky Hijikata vs. Brandon Nakashima
• Quentin Halys vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Adam Walton
• Mackenzie McDonald vs. Francisco Cerundolo
• Andrey Rublev vs. Matteo Arnaldi
• Matteo Gigante vs. Taylor Fritz: saturday
• Alejandro Tabilo vs. Dusan Lajovic: saturday
• Jenson Brooksby vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime: saturday
• Frances Tiafoe (16) beat Damir Dzumhur (Q): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7)
• Yosuke Watanuki (Q) beat Tomas Machac (19): 4-6, 4-2 ret.
• Daniil Medvedev (5) beat Yunchaokete Bu: 6-2, 6-2
• Arthur Fils (20) beat Gabriel Diallo (LL): 6-2, 6-2
• Stefanos Tsitsipas (8) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 6-2, 6-4
• Holger Rune (12) beat Corentin Moutet: 6-2, 6-4
• Alex Michelsen (31) beat Colton Smith (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Lorenzo Musetti (15) beat Roman Safiullin: 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
• Matteo Berrettini (28) beat Christopher O’Connell: 6-2, 7-6 (2)
• Marcos Giron beat Casper Ruud (4): 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-2
• Alexei Popyrin (26) beat Zizou Bergs: 7-6 (4), 7-5
• Cameron Norrie beat Jiri Lehecka (23): 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Tommy Paul (10) beat Tristan Boyer (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Ugo Humbert (18) beat Kei Nishikori: 6-4, 6-3
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (29) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-4 ret.
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Alexander Zverev (1): 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)